A Short dreamweaver web hosting SummaryWeb Hosting Mergers and Acquisitions - March 2008
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:40:00 -0400
I was going through my files --- then again and again ---- March was a slow month…but April will be better – at least my firm did three.
Lynchburg VA – Sitestar (OTC: SYTE) bought the assets of Comcation, an Internet service provider whose services also include web hosting. As a side note Sitestar’s CEO, Frank Erhartic has agreed to be on an M&A panel this blogger is moderating at ISPCON.
Australia - MYOB acquired Ilisys Pty Ltd one of Australia's larger web hosting providers. MYOB provides accounting software and payroll software to more than 700,000 businesses worldwide.
Glendale, CA - Pro Net Hosting acquired Homepage Universe which doubled the firm’s size to over 100,000 shared and dedicated hosting domains.
Denver, Colorado - ViaWest, acquired Dallas based Dataside. With the Dataside acquisition, ViaWest's annualized revenue will exceed $100 million by the fourth quarter of 2008.
London - Freedom4 Communications PLC, signed an agreement to sell its Hosting and Network Services Division to Host Europe WVS Ltd for 120.0 mln stg. ($235m)
Minneapolis - VISI acquired Infinity AccessNET, a business-focused Internet Service Provider.
Obviously not all inclusive - but from the NCC files.
More about Tom:
NCC - the Hosting Business Broker
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Corey Bissaillon, AtMailTue, 5 Aug 2008 12:00:14 -0800
theWHIR.com posted a photo:
AtMail's Corey Bissaillon stops by the networking lounge for an interview.
Some people called it a bad move cause people would talk about Ping Zine’’s stinginess for not having a winner. But the key here is that people will talk. And talk they did. There has already been a buzz for next year with several companies saying they will have cars or something other equally grand. This competition has made people talk and that is the type of publicity that cannot be bought. For a very small investment, Ping Zine has placed themselves deep into the lore of HostingCon and that is what made this great.
Allison and PaulFri, 1 Aug 2008 14:19:16 -0800
theWHIR.com posted a photo:
TheWHIR's Sales Director Allison Heather and DH Capital's Paul Stapleton
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Two days ago I come to post a blog and hmm, I get the suspended page. That's
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